What an interesting PhD, I look forward to reading…

Important consultation on legislation for powered mobility devices, including for Trirides etc, which currently aren’t covered at all

Still can't quite get over being called 'vengeful' and 'vexatious' by #DWP for asking for an unredacted email that could reveal details re the department's links with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths over the last 15 years. #DeathsByWelfare www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

How to do it… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

@bryonyshannon.bsky.social @centreforcare.bsky.social I’m just listing to your podcast. I like your stuff, as you’re aware. But I don’t like the way you are criticising the use of the term “user” because it is “linked to drug use”. People who use drugs are human beings too, including my brother…

Another so true blog…

🏳️‍🌈⚧️Being LGBTQ+ and Disabled: Where Identities Meet 📝New blog post! Celestine, one of DR UK's Trustees, writes about the intersection of LGBTQ+ and Disabled people - our shared experience of being other'd, and our creative ways we resist this💥 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/being-l...

Deeply concerning to hear that Disabled people are facing surveillance, with evidence of being physically active is used against us. The only 'welfare reform' the government should be talking about is a complete overhaul of this ableist system.

2/2 www.channel4.com/news/access-... #TakingThePIP #PIP #Disabled #AccessToWork

www.seeability.org/news/I-cant-... @uklabour.bsky.social 👇🏻

🚨 Joint statement: Unacceptable “concessions” on the disability cuts MUST be rejected. Signed by @justtreatment.org, @nsunnews.bsky.social, @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, Crips against Cuts, Mad Youth Organise and Taking the PIP. 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/unaccep...

Pride in Disabled and Queer Identity🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿️ Delighted to share this @desibility.bsky.social piece from DR UK Trustee, Celestine, on the intersections of queerness and disability 'Why does the conversation rarely go beyond the accessibility of Pride events?' www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/goin...

We're moved by the stunning photo essay by Frankie MIlls which powerfully demonstrates the pain couples and families in our community and across the UK suffer at the hand of the cruel and hostile UK family migration system. #FamiliesBelongTogether www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Reasonable adjustments still not being made ! (Why am I not surprised…) Disabled workers are facing large amounts of discrimination including failure to provide reasonable adjustments and bullying at work, a TUC survey has found: www.tuc.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

Chris Judge’s “A Daily Cloud” project began in 2020, born from quiet days in the garden during lockdown. With simple lines and a touch of imagination, he turned everyday skies into playful scenes - one cloud at a time. [1/3] Credits: adailycloud [FB] #clouds #creative

Network Rail’s decision to spend nearly £8m building a footbridge that will be inaccessible to many disabled people has been labelled an “appalling contradiction” of the govt’s commitment to improving the accessibility of the public transport system. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/network-rail...

My adorable nesting blue tits, with one of the hundreds of grubs they now have to find each day

Really important survey re PIP and work:

Online version now available: ‘Rights can be knocked out in a second’: older trans women shocked by supreme court ruling www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Global refugee populations from origin to asylum state in 2023. Fascinating and very well visualized.

💙SCIE is proud to announce the launch of our first-ever #SocialCareImpactAwards! These awards will identify, recognise, and reward small organisations doing exceptional work in social care💙. 1/4

Mimi realised she was intersex when she was 12. Approx 1.7% of people are intersex, thats approx 1.2 million people in the UK alone. Where exactly are they meant to go to the toilet now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4xG...

Super news: Our letter on disability benefits cuts has almost 450 signatories — incl doctors, nurses, psychologists, OTs, clergy, and crucially, disabled people & carers. Thank you!🙏 Every signature matters for Parliament & media — so please sign & share if you haven't already. tinyurl.com/2z8xu9k8

That’s a lot of people who are going to lose out…

Lazy Sunday morning…

If you’re on #DisabilityBenefits, it’s ok to have hobbies, holidays, food deliveries, and so on. Benefits exist so disabled people can live safely, independently, with quality of life. Don’t let government rhetoric make you feel guilty for existing.

When it comes to killing there are few things worse than killing children when they sleep ! Shame on those that support this…

One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits. As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.

This looks very interesting…

Wow…

No other land - a powerful profound documentary, available to UK and Irish watches free at C4: www.channel4.com/programmes/n...

Spring ! The crocuses are out and the blue tits are looking for nesting places. I put a nesting box up just last year and they’ve been checking it out - I hope they like what they saw !

Honest broker: an entity (individual or organisation) that is accepted by all sides in a negotiation as impartial. Neutrality does not equal an absence of interest; rather, the interest of the honest broker lies in a solution, without preference for either party involved in the conflict.

Zelensky carried things so heavy into that Oval Office, things that he tried to share with Trump in a very limited way when he shared those photos. It was the most pitiful sight. Trump cared not a whit, it seemed, and thumbed through Zelensky’s photos of Russian war crimes impatiently.

It’s now a year since I applied for Access to Work. A full year and I have heard nothing !

One if the best things ive read in a long time. Achingly raw and real. www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/forg...

Journalist Philippa Willitts takes us with them on a typical week in their life detailing the extra costs they have to pay because they're disabled. ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3WZW060

Just a usual train journey for us disabled people…

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

So it’s still fine for the “Chiefs” and fans to keep their racist name and practices yet they come down hard on a guy showing Palestine/Sudan flags during halftime…

I wrote this three years ago and it’s still just as relevant now. hagenilda.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/a...

"The leader of the free world advocates ethnic cleansing and dresses it up as a golden real estate opportunity. Here’s the dire, if hardly surprising, place we find ourselves just three weeks into the second Trump administration." www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

The Resource Collection is an interactive database that currently consolidates over 600 resource documents and projects, including research, strategies and policy-related documents on accessible transport. Found on ncat website: www.ncat.uk/what-we-do/n...

This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis. Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2 million people in the UK have significant sight loss #Braille200 is a fantastic project to assist the blind and partially sighted community And to help others wishing to connect with such communities